Clean Harbors Employee Reviews
Out of 285 Clean Harbors employee reviews, 72% were positive. The remaining 28% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping Clean Harbors improve their work culture. The Admin team, with 90% positive reviews, reports the best experience at Clean Harbors compared to all other departments at the company. The Operations team offered the most constructive feedback, with 32% of that department's reviews constructive in nature.
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
What do you like best about the leadership team?
Fair and flexible with work schedule
Very well organise easy to communicate
Its just a great experience
No i do not like them
support when i need it
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Going to work & stop leaving early
Be involved, care, and praise.
Hiring Managers/Gm with experience and or general knowledge
Buy better equipment drivers have a life after work
Training the employees correctly and culture.
Review from Operations Dept
What is the best part about your compensation package?
they dont allow my va deductable to count as deductable or toward out of pocket
Review from Operations Dept
Annual bonuses that rival most salaries if you work hard and produce
the pay for the area
Review from Operations Dept
My insurance is great to have
It's very fair and affordable
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
No praise, raise the pay to todays cost of living.
More pay and more family time with out out being over worked
More support and competitve pay that is much lower than new employees and those with 0 experience in branches we are tasked and successfully save on a monthly basis.
Review from Operations Dept
I put in more effort into making the job easier for managers, but it goes unseen, and I feel as if I am being overlooked for potential growth opportunities.
Review from HR Dept
They higher new employees with no experience at a higher rate than an employee whos been here for 10 years. Getting a yearly raise as needed and bonuses would actually help with work morales and would actually make me want to work harder and make me want to stay
Review from Operations Dept
What are some of the best things about your team?
Most of the regional managers are borderline retarded .
work together to keep things safe
Review from Operations Dept
Always talking about safety in our meetings
amazing team to work with
We work together although the shop and field personal have a divide
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Need better work force & supervisors to train new employees
Diversity and inclusion training could help a lot
Theor appearance, language, and communication skills.
They need to start acting like co-workers and stop acting like they are the boss.
Review from Operations Dept
Listen better to all your employees
What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
They preach safety every day
good vibes and a very safe place to work
The branch team. The management stopping at branch manager.
Review from Operations Dept
That my ability, intelligence, and personal sense of how a project could be done more efficiently is listened to and given its due discussion before a decision is reached.
Every co-worker help each other...
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Better training for management in general
Less hours better organized and more fare
Worrying more about employees and their saftey/ wellbeing than numbers out of the repack and decant processes
Review from Operations Dept
Management harps on safety but will bypass it if they see fit
Decrease the rampant nepotism within the branches
Review from Operations Dept
What did you like most about the interview process?
My process had several people.
It was good awesome feeling
it was a very long time ago
Personal at the start were fine the change was a stop
They listen but also already know what there going to do with you
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
Dont hire everyone who apply for position
They hire people immediately, as retention is abysmal.
More interaction with potential coworkers.
Dont hire everyone that comes through door
Well they interviewed me to promote to a crew leader but I never received anything for the new title. It was like I felt sry excited that my hard work was being notice and I felt like this was my career job I loved coming to work. But I never benefited from my promotion at from wages to guidance
What makes you most happy at work?
going to the branch and see coworkers
Review from Operations Dept
leaving for the day, or getting back in the field and working with our talented field personal.
When we all work together
Solving problems and working towards the greater hood
They provide company trucks so less stress on me
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Raize it to the ground, this is an evil corporation parading as an empathetic force for good.
over haul of management in the office
Give employees a reason to stay. There seems to be too many cooks in the kitchen and upper management seems to be stepping over eachother. I feel I went from being an asset to being a piece of equipment.
To crazy of a administration
A whole lot was going wrong
What do you like best about your company?
The commitment to sustainability and business growth.
I love my hours thats it
What would you most like to see improved at your company?
Commitment to all employees at every level.